Improved cutter for bread, meat



i INrrBn AStarts Partnr- Ottica SEYMOUR, OF` THE CITY OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EMPROVED CUTTER FOR BREAD, MEAT, &G.

Specification forming puit of Letters Patent No. dld, dated May 30, 18.53.

.To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL CAMPBELL, of Elizabeth, in Essex county and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Device for Cutting Bread, Meat, and other Substances; and I do hereby declare that the following is a-full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view of my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

meat," and 4various other substances; and it consists in the employment or use of astraight knife provided with guide-pins which work in oblique parallel grooves, the knife having a lever applied to it, and all arranged to operate as hereinafter set forth, whereby the knife is made to operate or work with a drawing cut, and to work'with Jthe greatest facility.

The invention further consists in a novel automatic feed mechanism for feeding the substance to be cutto the knife, as hereinafter described.

A represents a base-plate, on which an upright cast-iron frame, B, is firmly secured. This frame may be an open 0r skeleton one, in order to obtain lightness, and it is cast with two inclined or parallel oblique slots, C C, which are clearly shown in Fig. l. g

Drepresents a straight knife, which has two screws, E E, passing into it, one near each end, said screws passing through the slots C C, and in connectionwith the slots serving as guides for the knife. 11, 1

F is a lever, thelowerend of which works on a pivot, a, at the lower part of the frame B. This lever has an oblong slot, a', made in it for ascrew, b, to pass throughinto the knife to connect the latter with the formenand admitof a play of the lever, in order to operate the knife.

From the above description it will be seen that by operating the lever F the knife D will frame B, and it rests upon away, H, provided with a longitudinal groove, o, in which aproi jection, d, at the under side of the carriage fits. The carriage G has a rack, e, at one side of it, with which a pawl, I, engages, said pawl being pivoted to one end of a lever, J, the fulcrum-pinf of which passes into the baseplate A. The opposite end of lever .I has the lower end of a slide, K, tted in it, said slide working on gnidepins g g in the frame B, and having a spring, L, bearing against it, said spring having a tendency to press the slide K toward the carriage G. The pawl I has a spring, 71., bearing against it, which spring has a tendency to keep the pawl engaged with rack e.

The upper end of the slide K is acted upon by one of the screws E of the knife D each time the knife arrives at the end of its upward movement, and the slide K is thus made to actuate the lever J and pawl I, the latter giv` ing the feed-movement to the carriage G. The

spring L gives the return movement to the,

slide K. Thus by this simple arrangement la perfect automatic feed movement is given the substance being cut, the carriage on which the latter is placed being moved at each upward stroke of the knife. The length of the movement of the slide K is regulated by a setscrew, ax, and by this means thelength of the feed movement of the carriage G may be varied, according to the thickness of slice required. This set-screw, it will be seen, bears against the end of the frame B.

I would remark that a spring may be eniployed t0 press against one side of the carriage G, in order to force or press the carriage against the pawl. This spring is shown in red in Fig. 2.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-4 l. The application of the knifeD to paralmanner as and for the purpose herein set lel oblique slots C C in afraine, B, in connecforth. v tion With the lever F, attached to Jalle knife and frame B, all arranged to operate substalr DANIEL CAMPBELL. tially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The slide K, arranged in connection ftnessesz with the knife D, lever J, pawl I, and rack e STANLEY G. M lsoN, on Carriage G, to operate substantially in the l JOHN ROSE. 

